Attendees
Loose Agenda
- where we're at...
- money pledged
- update on RitRo space
- overview
- breaking up space
- 40% open/collab
- 30% private offices/anchor tenants
- 20% 1-2 conference rooms
- 10% commons/hallway/kitchen
- services wanted
- what we can each do (available time/resources/skills)
next steps
- other locations (2-3)
- 5 doors down
- what will it take to get Jungmann out?
- nail down date for selecting a site : april 15th sounds right but may not be realistic
- decide on a percentage of founders who have to be happy in order to commit to site
- voting on spaces?
- business models
- promotions
- evaluating the space
- power
- accessible bathroom
- plumbing
- permits/contractors
- government grants (?)
- what kind of organization is this?
- bootstrapping -- just get a space in the near term to establish a core group that could be a jumping off point to the next space
- possibility: find a second floor space off main street for first 6 months, jumping off to more permanant space
- dedicated actos to take care of certain responsibilities
- security?
- residential vs commercial? (jeff: up to the landlord)
- foot traffic restrictions
- openness as much as possible ...
How East Bay Cohousing does it
- Recognize that the group/phase we are in now is an umbrella group, about education and facilitation and assemblage and searching
- group formation - sufficient dollars and people is the threshold to move forward with a certain site, don't make it captive to consensus of all.
- come up with general principles to guide action, and specific values for a specific group
- develop tools to easily mix-and-match people and preferences and site characteristics, to make this easier to manage.
Software
- business model
- software can grow over time... bootstrap mode w/ fewer rules, less market-driven; adapts over time as usage changes
- use the name "ritual working"
Assignments
Two weeks to find a space... negotiate w/ 3 potential spaces...
locations we want to concentrate around:
16th + de haro
20th + valencia
south park
SOMA, Petrero Hill, Mission
- Ted -- 4 hours thurs will look into Potrero (16th and De Haro), site visit; glue -- things falling through the crack... summary by end of this week of 3 spaces...
- Enric -- photos of places that Ted looks at in Portrero, post recording to the wiki
- Tara -- look into South Park for opportunities
- Eric -- look into the other space down the street from RitRo (will check into place across 21st), blue collar contacts, will watch craigslist
- Chris -- get ritual working website up (sfcoworking -- tehspace), blog about other possibilities in the area (niall?), will give ryanne contact info for niall, will contact France Telecom about gauging interest, talk to Compumentor about interest
- Josh/Ryanne/Jay -- blogging, will visit the space, vlogging promotions/telling stories
- Josh -- document Creative Guild space on the wiki
- Jeff -- blogging, craiglist, ride bike around and find available spaces... will look into theater space @ 16th
- Schlomo -- contact a commercial realtor and report back to group (via Chris)
- Holly -- blog about it (will video spaces as necessary)
- Raines -- intro to Environmental Busines Cluster ("co-officing" in Oakland), will post info here about Hillside Club (Berkeley) space and Swans Market Cohousing (downtown Oakland) space potentially available for a "dry-run" "day of coworking", call it what you like, a chance to try it on, better understand your own needs/preferences and for others to have a little experience working through things with you.
Blogging... by all! tags: coworking/sfcoworking/tehspace
Meeting Media
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